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Structural Analysis of Recombinant Human Preproinsulins by Structure Prediction, Molecular Dynamics, and Protein-Protein Docking

  • Jung, Sung Hun (Department of Biological Science, Sangji University) ;
  • Kim, Chang-Kyu (WeGreen, Inc.) ;
  • Lee, Gunhee (Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Graduate School, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Yoon, Jonghwan (Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Graduate School, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Lee, Minho (Catholic Precision Medicine Research Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
  • Received : 2017.11.21
  • Accepted : 2017.11.28
  • Published : 2017.12.31
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Abstract

More effective production of human insulin is important, because insulin is the main medication that is used to treat multiple types of diabetes and because many people are suffering from diabetes. The current system of insulin production is based on recombinant DNA technology, and the expression vector is composed of a preproinsulin sequence that is a fused form of an artificial leader peptide and the native proinsulin. It has been reported that the sequence of the leader peptide affects the production of insulin. To analyze how the leader peptide affects the maturation of insulin structurally, we adapted several in silico simulations using 13 artificial proinsulin sequences. Three-dimensional structures of models were predicted and compared. Although their sequences had few differences, the predicted structures were somewhat different. The structures were refined by molecular dynamics simulation, and the energy of each model was estimated. Then, protein-protein docking between the models and trypsin was carried out to compare how efficiently the protease could access the cleavage sites of the proinsulin models. The results showed some concordance with experimental results that have been reported; so, we expect our analysis will be used to predict the optimized sequence of artificial proinsulin for more effective production.

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